The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-09-26
duces ttcum to compel the Camden Conaol.
idated OIL Company to produce their
stock and shipping books. On last sstur.

duces tecum to compel the Camden Como
idated Oil Company 10 produce thei
stock and shipping books. On last Satu,
day the Judge rendered his decisiop, II
granted the order for tho shipping book
and al! documents which went 10 ehoy
tho capacity OF the tank cars used, th,
destination, amount OF oil shipped. I,
whom, &c., but refused tho order for thu
stock books, on the ground that persor
or corporation could not DO compelled tc
produce testimony which would criminal,
themselves. Within iew days the book
Will DO demanded and between tue diu
closure Of their contents, the examination
OF Senator Camden and others, an inter
es!ing timo and vital disclosures may be
expected. .I',l ~, ~ i7I
Mr.: Camden was to have been exam
mod before the referee few days since
but as 1t WAS not convenient to unload biz
surplus Of Standard knowledge, be LEFT
!own alter the papers were served upon
him-there was no legal official in tho CITY
at the time to compel hls attendance.
There Is now, and II will be interesting 10
obselve whether the ex-senator will riak
another Riddleberger experience. M MI
The referee, after the conclusion OF Mr..
Coles testimony-or rather alter the fail.
ure to elicit anything from that oilicIal-
came to Marietta, where tbs principal
prosecuting witrcos, Mr.. George Rice, was
examined. sEi7 : - :" :.
Mr.. Rice, who is leading oil retiner,
mas made 1t his especial business for sey.
eral years past to acquaint himsoll with
tho methods Of the Standard Oil Com
pany. ,-sg. RE Itn4,, -II5. N /
Mr. Rice has mass OF documentary
evidence on all points relative to the ship.
mont, manufacture Of oils, Standard du.
plicity and crooked manipulatious which,
when collatod and condensed, leave no
question Of the illegal and ruinous policy
OF that national curae. His proofs Of over.
charges are endless; the bulldozins policy
of the Standard against produccra and
shlppsrs are irrefutable. 4 lE d !, -"T17
Prot. w. +. Minshall, snother rei,ner
was also examined at Marietta. Mr.. Min.
sha!lo refinery wss purchased by the Cam
den Consolidated OIL Company some
years since, through General Camden,
who was then ih president. Mr.. Camden
agreed to account to Minshall for one.
fourth OF tho profits for the term Of five
years, assuring him that the refinery
would bo run at is full capacity whenever
there was any margin for profit. The re-
hneIy was not run altar ita purchase, and
was finally diBmautled and removed, and
Mr.. Minshall has had to whistle for his
ot the profits. He is only another exam.
pie of the general ruin which follows in
the wake Of the Standard Oil Company. ]
Prof. Minshall is the gentleman who
wrote General Agent r. NJ. Frazer for
rates over tho O., W. & B. Railroad, Tho
only satiefactlon he could get was to hear
the telegram Of Frsz,r to Colonel Thomp-
9on as 1t went over the wires: us not
that your Territory?' and the reply:
Yes, that is our mea.?" 'Sf
This Is the giat Of the testimony aa taken
TO date by the refsroe in the QUO warranto
proceedings OF the State OF ohio Va, The
O., W: & B. and Queen and Crescent line
o. railroads. Tho testimony Of Senator
Camden will probably be taken within q
few days. III
The mex. letter will be confined 10 the
Standard in West Virginia politics and
West Virginia land and oil manipulntions,
in which the writer will undertake. to show
Why the people are coming up out OF
Egypt and cut Of bondage" LoMnARD.